köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gelH-? Proto-Celtic *galnatibor. Latin Gallus Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin Gallia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin [canis] gallicusellip. Old Spanish galgo Spanish galgo Inherited from Old Spanish galgo, from Vulgar Latin gallicus (“Gaulish”, adjective) through ellipsis of…
aile: cama de galgos, échale un galgo, el que nos vendió el galgo, la galga de Lucas, no le alcanzarán galgos, que no se lo salta un galgo, váyase a espulgar un galgo
greyhound (lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing)
çekim: çoğul galgos
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese galgo, from Vulgar Latin gallicus (canis) (“French (dog)”), from Gallia (“Gaul, modern-day France”). Doublet of gálico.
sighthound (a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance)
çekim: çoğul agarak
köken: From Old Hungarian agar and earlier Agar. Borrowed from a West Slavic language. Compare Czech ohař, Polish ogar and Slovak ohar, from Proto-Slavic *ogarь. A direct borrowing from a (Oghuric) Turkic language is less likely. First attested in 1193.
köken: Likely from French lévrier, from Old French levrer, from Late Latin canem leporārium (literally “hare dog, harehound”), from Latin lepus (“hare”). By surface analysis, llebre + -er.